It‘s also an unsustainable world because of climate change,resource depletion, and the fact that between now and 2050,the world’s supposed to grow from six and a half to nine billion people,with most of the growth in the countries least able to handle it, under today‘s conditions,never mind those. That’s all fixable,too.So is climate change a problem? Is resource depletion a problem? Is poverty and the fact that 130 million kids never go to school and all this disease that I work on a problem? You bet it is. But I believe the most important problem is the way people think about it and each other, and themselves. The world is awash today in political,religious,almost psychological conflicts,which require us to divide up and demonize people who aren‘t us.And every one of them in one way or the other is premised on a very simple idea.That our differences are more important than our common humanity.I would argue that Mother Teresa was asked here,Bono was asked here,and Martin Luther King was asked here because this class believed that they were people who thought our common humanity was more important than our differences.So with this Harvard degree and your incredible minds and your spirits that I’ve gotten a little sense of today, this gives you virtually limitless possibilities. But you have to decide how to think about all this and what to do with your own life in terms of what you really think.I hope that you will share Martin Luther King‘s dream,embrace Mandela’s spirit of reconciliation, support Bono‘s concern for the poor and follow Mother Teresa’s life into some active service. Ordinary people have more power to do public good than everbefore because of the rise of non-governmental organizations, because of the global media culture,because of the Internet,which gives people of modest means the power, if they all agree, to change the world.When former President Bush and I were asked to work on the tsunami,before we did the Katrina work, Americans,many of whom could not find the Maldives or Sri Lanka on a map,gave $1.2 billion to tsunami aid.Thirty percent of our households gave.Half of them gave over the Internet,which means you don‘t even have to be rich to change the world if enough people agree with you. But we have to do this.Citizen service is a tradition in our country about as old as Harvard,and certainly older than the government.When the human genome was sequenced,and the most interesting thing to me as a non-scientist-we finished it in my last year I was president,I really rode herd on this thing and kept throwing more money at it-the most interesting thing to me was the discovery that human beings with their three billion genomes are 99.9 percent identical genetically.So if you look around this vast crowd today, at the military caps and the baseball caps and the cowboy hats and the turbans, if you look at all the different colors of skin,all the heights,all the widths,all the everything,it’s all rooted in one-tenth of one percent of our genetic make-up. Don‘t you think it’s interesting that not just people you find appalling,but all the rest of us,spend 90 percent of our lives thinking about that one-tenth of one percent? I mean,don‘t we all? How much of the laugh lines in the speeches were about that? At least I didn’t go to Yale, right? That Brown gag was hilarious.
同类推荐
靠自己成功
《靠自己成功》是文学大师林语堂先生亲自选编并翻译的马登代表作的选集。他对中西方文化的了解以及其对中英两种语言炉火纯青的掌握。为他在翻译方面的造诣奠定了重要的基础,由此也成就了这本中文版的励志精品。美国的马尔滕博士,著书极多,内容都是激励和兴奋青年人的文字,为文鞭辟入理,剀切详明,令人百读不厌。20世纪30年代,文学大师林语堂博士亲自选编翻译了这两本著作,并结集在国内出版,书名定为《成功之路》,给当时的青年以巨大的影响和激励,一扫当时消极、悲观、烦闷、颓唐的气氛。本书努力于有系统地介绍充满生机的新生活,即使不是绝无,至少可称仅有。这是译者不揣浅薄,翻译这本书的最大的理由。做才能得到 守才是幸福
本书是一本教你守住,成就幸福的心灵成长之书。全书分两部分:做到和守住,阐明在现实生活中,只有做,才能得到;在内心世界里,只有守,才是幸福。只有守住现实,守住内心,不为名利所累,才能在世俗喧嚣中掸去尘世的污垢;也只有懂得舍弃,才能在现实生活中,找到轻松生活的最佳方式,并在一个相对放松的环境下实现生命的最大价值,更好地享受幸福人生。
热门推荐
女囚料峭往事:刘氏女
坐牢十年,和女囚们日出而作,日落而息,从二十六岁到三十六岁,作者说,比某些夫妻的婚龄长,比很多小两口还亲。那里,外表平静如镜,其实,终日翻江倒海。每个犯人都有经历,而经历就是故事。情罪小说系列《刘氏女》是其中之一则,杀夫、肢解、装坛、入狱、赎罪。三十年后,真的刘氏女也许已经走了,作者把她落在纸上,不写政治,不说制度,沒有直接刻意描写那个年代的丑陋,甚至连愤慨也沒有,笔墨集中表达女囚的命运,窥探她们的內心。这是作者第一次正式写出的小说作品。演技六讲:创造角色的灵魂
《演技六讲:创造角色的灵魂》(增订纪念版)是波列斯拉夫斯基毕生表演与戏剧理论的大成之作,对方法派的形成产生了重要影响。初版于1933年的《演技六讲》以英语写成,以导演和表演初学者的对话形式,从注意力集中、情绪的记忆、戏剧的动作、性格化、观察、节奏六个方面生动活泼地阐述了表演的基本理念,至今再版不断,并被译为西、葡、意、土、波兰等十几种语言。此次中译本在郑君里先生经典译本的基础上进行了大幅增订,如作者向美国公众阐述斯坦尼体系的23篇演讲,这为其后来提炼“演技六讲”提供了重要语境。此外,书中还收录了作者在美国实验剧院的重要合作伙伴玛丽亚·乌斯彭斯卡娅的4篇表演课讲义。因此,本书可说是了解现代表演方法从斯坦尼体系发展到方法派的重要依据,更是今天的表演和戏剧学习者的必读文本。追妻无门:女boss不好惹
青涩蜕变,如今她是能独当一面的女boss,爱了冷泽聿七年,也同样花了七年时间去忘记他。以为是陌路,他突然向他表白,扬言要娶她,她只当他是脑子抽风,他的殷勤她也全都无视。他帮她查她父母的死因,赶走身边情敌,解释当初拒绝她的告别,和故意对她冷漠都是无奈之举。突然爆出她父母的死居然和冷家有丝毫联系,还莫名跳出个公爵未婚夫,扬言要与她履行婚约。峰回路转,破镜还能重圆吗? PS:我又开新文了,每逢假期必书荒,新文《有你的世界遇到爱》,喜欢我的文的朋友可以来看看,这是重生类现言,对这个题材感兴趣的一定要收藏起来。